The American left has a “family problem” in which an increasing number of liberal young adults, particularly women, are not interested in getting married and having children.
According to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), liberal young women are not only less likely to be interested in getting married and having children, but also growing increasingly left-wing, which perpetuates their anti-family tendencies.
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